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9/11Ralph Borsodi A Confident Future The Green Revolution
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- 2021
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- Accumulated Wisdom, Adult Education, Herbert Agar, Agrarian, Agrarianism, Agriculture, Agriculture in Modern Life, Alternative Americas, Alternative Lifestyle, American Agrarianism, Lifelong Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Fr. Luigi Ligutti, Local Currency, John Loomis, Mildred Loomis, Masonry, Peter Maurin, J. P. Narayan, National Advertising vs Prosperity, American Republic, Nature, New Agrarian, New Deal, New School of Living, Nietzsche, Normal Community, Normal Family, Normal Individual, Normal Living, Elizabeth Nutting, Appropriate Technology, Pan-Humanist Manifesto, Optimal Living, Organic Gardening, Peace Plan, Populism, Post-industrial, Problem-Centered Education, Progress and Poverty, Progressive Movement, Prosperity and Security, Back-to-the-land, Quality Minded, Re-Education, Quality Minded, Quantity Minded, Resiliency, Resilient Individual, Resource Depletion, Right-Education, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Theodore Roszak, E. F. Schumacher, Rural Sociology, Rural Life, Rural Sociology, School of Living, Self-Expression, Self-Reliance, Seminar, Seventeen Problems, Balanced Living, Clifford D. Simak, Small-Scale Technology, Pitirim Sorokin, Southern Agrarians, Chauncey Stillman, Guenther Stint, Subsistence, Suffern, New York, Sustainability, Barter, Bob Swann, Taxonomy, Ralph Templin, The Challenge of Asia, The Distribution Age, The Education of the Whole Man, The Interpreter, Thirteen Major Problems, This Ugly Civilization, Tree of Life, Bayard Lane, Universal Problems, University of New Hampshire, Urbanization, Urban-Industrial Society, Van Houten Fields, Way Out, Weaving, Ruth Weise, Wheel of Life, Virginia Wood, Vinoba Bhave, Frank Lloyd Wright, Zero carbon, Borsodi as I Knew Him, Borsodi Constant, Myrtle Mae Borsodi, Ralph Borsodi, William Borsodi, Lewis Bromfield, Ernest Callenbach, Fritjof Capra, Catholic Agrarians, Catholic Workers, Carpentry, Classification, Community, Community Land Trust, Composting, Constant Currency, Construction, Consumer Advocacy, Counterculture, Country Life Commission, Country Living, Danish Folk Schools, Dayton Homesteading, Decentralism, Decentralist Movement, Decentralist Manifesto, Deep Run Farm, Detroit, Diet and Food Reform, Director of Education, Disney, Distribution, Distributism, Dogwoods, Domestic Production, Economic Development, Economic Instability, Economics, Ecotopia, Education and Living, Equal opportunity Exeter New Hampshire, Family, Family Production, Federalism, Flight From the City, Food Preservation/Canning, Foodshed, Free America, Gandhi, Gerlach Academy, Go Ahead and Live, Gramdan Movement, Grandmother of the Counterculture, Henry George, David Grayson, Great Depression, Green Revolution, Guild, Bolton Hall, Alexander Hamilton, Health, Heathcote, Hippies, Homesteading, Homesteading Division, How to Economize, Human Potential, Independence Institute, India, Individualism, Industrialization, Inflation, Inflation is Coming, Institute for Community Economics, International Foundation for Independence, International Independence Institute, Paul Keene, Land Trust, Lane’s End, Lefevre, George Leonard
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Ralph Borsodi was a pioneer and leader in a wide variety of areas related to personal independence. He was a pioneering consumer advocate and noted critic of the shortcomings of urban industrial society. He was a leader of a movement that opposed the centralization of industry, government, education and other social institutions. Over the course of his long and productive life, he laid much of the foundation for what we today call the sustainability movement. He was a pioneer in going back-to-the-land. He founded two homesteading communities and inspired others. He and family created a model and successful homestead. He was a leader in organic gardening, healthy living, domestic production, homebuilding and many related things. He founded the School of Living to provide skills, motivation and a philosophy for an alternative, agrarian lifestyle. The central idea of the School was not “instruction in country living and in folk arts and handicrafts; nor the development of a better method of dealing with unemployment; nor the solution of the housing problem,” wrote Borsodi. “It was the scientific validity of decentralization –of the truth of the conviction slowly burned into my consciousness … that the progress and centralization for which modern industrial man has been taught he should live, was based upon a tragic error – a tragic misunderstanding of the true meaning of science – and that a whole new program of education has to be developed which would substitute for the prevailing mistaken objective in living, an end or aim which was right, proper and, as I have come to think of it, normal.” Borsodi and close associate Mildred Loomis lead School of Living programs for a half century. The tagline “Green Revolution” proposes a robust, alternative, agrarian lifestyle with families providing much of their own needs. It is close to nature. It has a strong family base. Borsodi made a solid economic case for this lifestyle – a new economic model. He also proposed a decentralized economy with fewer and smaller, locally owned, factories. Toward the end of his life, he perfected his community land trust and local currency models. As the current global economy becomes less stable and resources become depleted, this model lays the foundation for a post-industrial, safe, secure and stable society. It is not a return to primitivism but a balanced model employing appropriate technology – another field Borsodi pioneer. It would be a zero-carbon, low energy but high quality of life. This book is the first of two volumes, the second of which, Ralph Borsodi, A Confident Future: Learning and Living, covers his seminal work in adult, life-long education. These two books seek to restore Borsodi’s extraordinary legacy and lay the foundation for further development of his system that is being pursued by this author and colleagues.
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